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Most People Get Impostor Syndrome
They just need to know how to make it go away..
Have you ever felt like an impostor and you don’t know why? It’s common and sometimes barely noticeable. I noticed in myself when I was feeling off and couldn’t shake the feeling. As soon as I heard the words “impostor syndrome”, I knew that was it. I felt different just identifying what I had been feeling.
What is Impostor Syndrome?
Impostor syndrome doesn’t happen to an impostor. It happens to talented people that doubt their abilities. This makes them feel like they are frauds, impostors.
Working around other people, a person can tell how they’re doing, but if they have impostor syndrome, they think others might find out that they’re a fraud. They’re not.
Who is likely to get Impostor Syndrome?
Some people are such perfectionists that they feel like one mistake is too many. Perfectionists are way too hard on themselves. Those people are already better at what they do, than they give themselves credit for. They just don’t realize it.
A person might be labelled as an expert at something, and they’ve believed this to be true. Something happened to make them doubt themselves. Maybe a mistake, or a badly timed…
